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Capitol Perspectives: 45 days that balance power and politics in Missouri

by Mark Hughes
This year’s session of the legislature — formally known as the Second Regular Session of the 98th Missouri General Assembly, adjourned pursuant to the Constitution at midnight on May 30.

Granted, the speeches, amendments, debates, votes, introduction of guests and affiliated standing and grandstanding concluded a couple of weeks earlier — replete with the sophomoric littering of the House chamber with bills and amendments tossed into the